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Gesellschaft – Wissen – Umwelt (Bielefeld) @gwu-bielefeld.bsky.social · 6d

Energy History People, see this great opportunity: PhD Course in Energy Humanities, 1–5 Dec @greenhouseuis.net. Apply by 24 Oct!
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory #energistories

Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 26d

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!

Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.

Applications are welcome until 24 October.

#envhum #envhist #energyhistory

Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 7d

Starting my online course «Nature & Nation: An Environmental History of Norway Since 1850» today. The timing could have been better since things are ridiculously busy, but I’m still excited about this opportunity! #envhist

Nature & Nation: An Environmental History of Norway Since 1850

Nature & Nation is an environmental history of Norway since 1850. Through five thematic modules, you will learn about the history of modern Norway seen through the lens of environmental interactions a...

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 6d

'What does it mean to become energy literate?'

Read @sros.bsky.social reflections on her time at E-WERK Luckenwalde published on the #energylives project blog. ⤵

#envhum #energyhistory #nordforsk

www.uis.no/en/the-curre...

Learning to read energy: reflections from a summer residency at E-WERK Luckenwalde

Suzanne Ros, PhD Candidate at the University of Stavanger / Energy Lives Project, reflects on her experience of her summer residency at E-WERK, Luckenwalde, Germany.

www.uis.no

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 6d

We are so proud of @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and her new book. It truly is a stunningly beautiful book - and an important one. #envhist #envhum

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 6d

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Double page spread with a photo of diorama

Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow Monday Oct 6, we’ll be talking to @royscranton.bsky.social about Impasse: Climate Change & the Limits of Progress on the @greenhouseuis.net book talk.

Join us for the live discussion at 4pm Central European time / 10am Eastern
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Book cover of Impasse by Roy Scranton with swirls of color like a wave or dragon

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 10d

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 10d

Today’s Greenhouse lunch was packed! The main event was to celebrate our colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth, who was just awarded funding from the Research Council of Norway for her project «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems». Congratulations!

Woman holding a plant standing in front of bookcases full of books

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 11d

October is here! A month full of exciting #envhum #envhist events in The Greenhouse! Hope to see many of you online or in person.

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 15d

Monday 29 Sept 2025: Brad Bolman @bolman.bsky.social will discuss his book Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles (UChicago Press, 2025) in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series.

Join us online at 16:00 Central European / 10:00 Eastern / 9:00 Central. newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Cover of book Lab Dog with a dog hooked up to a scale

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 26d

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!

Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.

Applications are welcome until 24 October.

#envhum #envhist #energyhistory

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · Sep 11

The Greenhouse Inaugural Professorial Lecture with Ingvil Hellstrand is about to begin! www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum

Woman standing in front of screen, text «Imagining otherwise»

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · Sep 4

@bolman.bsky.social discusses his new book, LAB DOG, with the @greenhouseuis.net Humanities Book Talks on September 29! Learn more or register for this online event. buff.ly/Uijiib1

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · Aug 26

Here's the link for my @greenhouseuis.net talk about my new book: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e.... It'll be at 3–4pm UK time on 1 September. Be there or be square! Or be a hollow globe filled with concentric spheres.

Map of the Interior World from the novel The Goddess of Atvatabar. A cross section of the planet shows the continents and oceans on the inverse side of Earth's crust, and inner sun.

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · Aug 28

We start up our weekly online #envhum book talks on Monday! Join us!

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Aug 28

Join us Mon 1 Sept 2025 for @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talk with @richardfallon.bsky.social on Contesting Earth’s History in Transatlantic Literary Culture 1860-1935: Believers & Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology & Palaeontology (Oxford UP 2025).
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
#histsci

On left: purple flower and underneath Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks
On right: cover of the book Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935 with drawings of many animals and two naked people

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Aug 21

excited to share the call for the workshop

EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION

happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025,
 made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social

deadline: 10 September!

full call below ⤵

#envhist #envhum

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · Aug 21

The Greenhouse has been well represented at #eseh2025 this week. Wonderful to see old and new friends and colleagues, and to participate in stimulating sessions. Here’s the ESEH Climate Histories Museum organized by Marie-Theres Fojuth, @eikeheine.bsky.social & @dominikhhh.bsky.social. #envhist

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Aug 18

I have gotten our @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for September & October posted!

Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time.

For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · Aug 18

The Greenhouse is well represented at #eseh2025! Come hang out with us tonight at William’s Pub from 19:30! #envhist

Poster with Greenhouse at the ESEH program

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Aug 12

NB! @wrigleyca.bsky.social will take over research event responsibilities this term, so make sure to follow her and @greenhouseuis.net for updates from the Greenhouse! 🌿

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Aug 12

but before that, many of us will be at the most important #envhist event this summer: #ESEH2025!

see below who is going, what the will talk about, and make sure to join us on Monday evening for informal chats and drinks

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Mon, 18 Aug, 19.30-21.00, Williams Pub
Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities Social Event
Join us for an informal evening with old and new Greenhouse friends.

Tue, 19 Aug, 11.00-12.30, 6-K1031
Animals and Infrastructure (S01-05)
J Ellingsen, “Not a nest, but a home: Kittiwakes and infrastructure in Tromsø, 2015 – 2023”

Tue, 19 Aug, 11.00-12.30, 16-0042
As Above So Below: Verticality, Environmental History, and the Anthropocene (S01-13)
C Wrigley, “Fiery depths: burn restoration, zombie reanimation, and re-earthing history”

Tue, 19 Aug, 11.00-12.30, 22-0031 Hybrid
The Environmental Historian Photographer: Exploring the Place of Photography in Environmental History Practice (S01-14)
M Graesse, “Discerning change: re-photography for tracing environmental change”
FA Jørgensen, “Sensing cameras and embodied photographers in environmental history practice”

Tue, 19 Aug, 14.99-15.30, Hall X Hybrid
Tracing Untold Stories: Museum Ecologies, Care and the Ecological Crisis (1/2) (S02-1)
E-C Heine, “Making the Invisible Visible in Museums of Technology: Petroculture, the Challenge of Progress, and the Case of the Technikmuseum Berlin”
M-T Fojuth, “Slow Care and the Environmentalism of Museums”

Tue, 19 Aug, 14.00-15.30, Hall IX
Energy Scapes and Energy Transitions: Spaces, Temporalities and Scales of Energy Transitions (2/2) (S02-12)
M A Buns, “Postnuclear Landscapes: The Afterlives of the Former Uranium Mine Ranstadverket”

Wed, 20 Aug, 11.00-12.30, 22-0031
The ESEH 2025 Climate Histories Museum (S05-13)
with E-C Heine, M-T Fojuth, K Brandt

Wed, 20 Aug, 11.00-12.30, 3H
Poster Session (S05-11)
J Ellingsen, “Fiery Landscapes, coastal heathlands and the revival of heath burning in western Norway”

Thur, 21 Aug, 11.00-12.30, 6-0022
Waste Issues Around the Globe in the 20th Century (S09-07)
Y Balsley, “Waste Challenges in Palestine under British Rule”
D Porsnovs, “Harnessing Waste: The Initiation of U.S. Artificial Reef Building in the 1960s and 1970s”

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Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Aug 12

the academic year 2025/2026 has started here in Norway and we are slowly returning to our offices - for every one in town, @greenhouseuis.net will resume next week and Anna Grasskamp and her team from Oslo are kicking off the autumn term events on 27 August !

#envhum

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Overview of the events at the Greenhouse in August. More info on uis.no/en/greenhouse. For the book talks, see also https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/.

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · Jul 2

Think so, yes.

Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · Jul 1

Third, @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social is teaching "The Sixth Mass Extinction," offering an interdisciplinary examination of extinction in the last 300 years.

The Sixth Mass Extinction

We are living through a period of rapid global extinction, called the Sixth Mass Extinction. Animals like the great auk, Tasmanian tiger, and passenger pigeon have all become recently extinct. This co...

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · Jul 1

Second, @finnarne.me is teaching "Nature & Nation: An Environmental History of Norway Since 1850", using the #envhist of Norway to explore themes such as ideas of nature, the rise of sustainability discourse, resources production, formation of national identity, and changing climates. #envhum

Nature & Nation: An Environmental History of Norway Since 1850

Nature & Nation is an environmental history of Norway since 1850. Through five thematic modules, you will learn about the history of modern Norway seen through the lens of environmental interactions a...

engage.eciu.eu

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · Jul 1

First, @melinabuns.bsky.social is teaching "Histories of Energy Transitions," exploring energy transitions as a concept and as a political, social, and environmental reality. #envhist #envhum

Histories of Energy Transitions

Societies across the globe are in dire need to decarbonize their energy systems and to switch to renewable energy production, a transformation generally known as the green transition. Whereas the moti...

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